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High Wind Watches in Washington, 2025
10 high wind watches in 2025. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of high wind watches reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 10
- Busiest month
- February4 high wind watches
- Busiest day
- February 23, 20253 high wind watches
Over time
By month
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Pacific Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 6:49 PM PST | High Wind Watch | PQR | Cowlitz, Pacific, Wahkiakum | 19 hr |
| Feb 23, 12:17 AM PST | High Wind Watch | SEW | 14 hr | |
| Feb 23, 3:45 AM PST | High Wind Watch | PDT | Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima | 24 hr |
| Feb 24, 3:37 AM PST | High Wind Watch | OTX | Asotin, Garfield | 8 hr |
| May 29, 1:24 PM PDT | High Wind Watch | PDT | Kittitas, Klickitat, Yakima | 22 hr |
| Jul 13, 3:38 AM PDT | High Wind Watch | OTX | Douglas, Okanogan | 11 hr |
| Dec 14, 12:57 PM PST | High Wind Watch | OTX | Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Garfield and 7 more | 34 hr |
| Dec 14, 12:58 PM PST | High Wind Watch | PDT | Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla and 1 more | 34 hr |
| Dec 15, 12:45 AM PST | High Wind Watch | SEW | Clallam, Grays Harbor, Island, Jefferson, King, Kitsap and 8 more | 13 hr |
| Dec 23, 7:51 AM PST | High Wind Watch | SEW | Clallam, Grays Harbor, Island, Jefferson, King, Kitsap and 8 more | 12 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Klickitat County3
- Yakima County3
- Benton County2
- Columbia County2
- Franklin County2
- Walla Walla County2
- Asotin County2
- Garfield County2
- Kittitas County2
- Douglas County2
- Okanogan County2
- Clallam County2
- Grays Harbor County2
- Island County2
- Jefferson County2
- King County2
- Kitsap County2
- Lewis County2
- Mason County2
- Pierce County2
- San Juan County2
- Skagit County2
- Snohomish County2
- Thurston County2
- Whatcom County2
- Cowlitz County1
- Pacific County1
- Wahkiakum County1
- Adams County1
- Chelan County1
- Ferry County1
- Grant County1
- Lincoln County1
- Pend Oreille County1
- Spokane County1
- Stevens County1
- Whitman County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.